If there is a typical image of Annabel Fairfax's oil paintings it is a bowl of flowers and foliage full of abstracted flowers, her bright bold brushstrokes and markings setting them apart from the mundane. Her watercolours, travel scenes from the Hebrides to the Caribbean, capture the moment and are painted with energy and freshness. Her paintings are harmonious and decorative, the very opposite of photographic; she paints with her eyes, the subject matter becoming an idyllic, romanticised version of reality. Her work has been reproduced all over the world into cards and prints and she exhibits regularly.

Ian Strathcarron is the author of numerous books from spy thrillers to travel biographies, from philosophy books to crime dramas as well as being a playwright and screenwriter. When not writing he is Chairman of Unicorn Publishing Group, President of the Society of Mediators and a backbencher in the House of Lords.